What's the worst depiction of a chef in a movie/show that's not primarily about food?
For me it's the boyfriend in The Devil Wears Prada. My SO made me rewatch it with her the other week because of the new one coming out and the boyfriend annoyed the shit out of me the whole time. You're introduced to him making Anne Hathaway a grilled cheese and he shows that he's a chef because he flips the grilled cheese in the pan. He could have used a spatula, he even could have used his fingers, but he flipped it.. because chef. He then went on to mention that there's like $10 worth of Jarlsberg in the grilled cheese. Later on in the movie he also bragged about how the strawberries that he bought were $5 a piece. Like he really has a thing for stupidly priced food and announcing how overpriced it is.
The main irritating thing about his character is his overall attitude on work. His main problem with Anne Hathaway the whole movie is that she's spending too much time and energy at her new job and no longer spending it all on him. Of course we should continue to strive for work/life balance in the industry, but a chef should also be a little more understanding if his SO has to miss some things because of her job. He just seems very self centered and he loves to talk about chefy things whenever he's on screen without ever being shown actually working.